"Women singing," began his opening gambit. "It's doing very well at the moment."

Carry on.

"If you look at the UK top 10, four single females are in there, plus Lady Gaga, plus, you know ... far more than men succeeding in the top 10 at the moment. What's going on? Why are women so popular at the moment?"

Shakira's answer didn't appear to make a whole lot of sense, but in given the circumstances you can forgive her. Next!

"Are there too many women who don't write?" continued Davis. "You write your own songs, there's a lot to you. You write the music, or co-write the music, a lot of them are just singing the words that someone else has produced ..."

It turns out Shakira started writing songs when she was eight.

"You did start everything very young, didn't you? Hahahahahaha!"

Even better, it was a recorded interview, so I'm dying to hear the bits that didn't make it to air. "Sounds very jolly," was the verdict of Davis's colleague, Justin Webb, as the programme cut back to the studio.

As cringeworthy radio interviews go Davis' was up there with the best of them. My all-time number one was this interview on BBC Radio 5 Live's breakfast show seven years ago - how time flies - about plans to force ITV Digital customers to return their set-top boxes. Almost unlistenable, I had some sympathy for the chap who found himself being grilled by three people at the same time. (You'll find the interview half way down this page under the heading Dec 2002 - 1 million ITV Digital boxes to be reclaimed)

When Evan Met Shakira was also memorable, but for rather different reasons. So what's your favourite embarrassing radio moment?